She grew up plain and simple in a farmin' town
Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the callin' when they had hoedowns
She said the neighbors would come and they'd move all my grandma's furniture around
There'd be twenty or more, they're on the old wooden floor, dancin' to a country sound
Carters and Jimmy Rogers played her favorite songs
And on Saturday nights there was a radio show and she'd sing along
I'll never forget her face when she revealed to me
That she dreamed about singin' at the Grand Old Opry
Her eyes, oh how they sparkled when she sang those songs
She was hangin' the clothes on the line, I was a kid just a-hummin' alone
I'd be playin' in the grass to her what might have seemed obliviously
There ain't no doubt about it, she sure made her mark on me
She played old gospel records on the phonograph
She'd turn them up loud and we'd sing along how those days have passed
But now that I'm older it occurs to me
I was singin' in the Grandest Opry
And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, abide with me
Till I ride the gospel ship to Heaven's Jubilee
And in that great triumphant morning my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted when my Savior's face I see
So I don't wanna get adjusted to this world below
But I know He'll pilot me till it comes time to go
Oh, nothin' on this earth is half as dear to me
As the sound of my mama's loppery
And we sang Sweet Rose of Sharon, abide with me
Till I ride the gospel ship to Heaven's Jubilee
And in that great triumphant morning my soul will be free
And my burdens will be lifted when my Savior's face I see
So I don't wanna get adjusted to this world below
But I know He'll pilot me till it comes time to go
Oh, nothin' on this earth is half as dear to me
As the sound of my mama's loppery
As the sound of my mama's loppery